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PLOS Digital Health, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred an unprecedented demand for interventions that can reduce disease spread without excessively restricting daily activity, given negative impacts on mental health and economic outcomes.
Prateek Gupta +16 more
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Comparison of contact tracing methods: A modelling study [PDF]
Infectious Disease ModellingIntroduction: Contact tracing has been a key tool to contain the spread of diseases and was widely used by countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, evaluating the effectiveness of contact tracing has been challenging.
Joanna X.R. Tan +7 more
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Community-engaged COVID-19 contact tracing initiative in Chicago [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Translational ScienceIntroduction: During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) partnered with 31 community-based organizations (CBOs) to implement contact tracing to identify and manage potential COVID-19 infection cases in ...
Sage J. Kim +6 more
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Contact tracing – Old models and new challenges
Infectious Disease Modelling, 2021 Contact tracing is an effective method to control emerging infectious diseases. Since the 1980’s, modellers are developing a consistent theory for contact tracing, with the aim to find effective and efficient implementations, and to assess the effects of
Johannes Müller, Mirjam Kretzschmar
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Performance and utility of contact tracing for COVID-19 in the WHO South-East Asia Region: implications for future pandemic preparedness [PDF]
The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast AsiaSummary: Contact tracing was widely implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, but its real-world performance and utility for decision-making remain poorly understood.
Melanie Bannister-Tyrrell +12 more
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Lessons for future outbreaks from successful contact tracing systems in Asia [PDF]
The Lancet Regional Health. Western PacificSummary: Countries around the world had utilized contact tracing to support public health responses to curb transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Joanna X.R. Tan +5 more
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5G and Beyond for Contact Tracing [PDF]
IEEE Communications Magazine, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has suddenly raised the need for technological solutions capable to trace contacts of people and provide location-based analytics. Several countries have adopted proximity-based (short- range) technologies, such as Bluetooth, which however appear hindered by deployment issues, security leakages, lack of reliability, and data ...
Giustiniano, D +4 more
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Clustering based Contact Tracing Analysis and Prediction of SARS-CoV-2 Infections [PDF]
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems, 2022 INTRODUCTION: Contact tracing is a method to track the victims, which have been infected from the host with any particular disease.
Meenu Gupta +4 more
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To Contact Tracing... and Beyond! [PDF]
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020 To the Editor—We write to endorse and extend the thoughts of Nosyk et al on contact tracing, which we strongly agree is an opportunity to achieve additional public health goals, including diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2021 BackgroundDigital contact tracing apps have the potential to augment contact tracing systems and disrupt COVID-19 transmission by rapidly identifying secondary cases prior to the onset of infectiousness and linking them into a system of quarantine ...
O'Connell, James +21 more
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